Tribal flamed

Three dimentional flames

Whippy overlapping flames

Real fire flames

Pinstripe flames

Ghost flames

Color fade flames

I have 35 plus years in custom painted flame experience
in all areas of flame design and application. I can design a
flame package for any specialty vehicle including hotrods,
motorcycles,boats, planes and any other item that can take
paint as a surface.

Applying flames is a multi step system, first you need to
pick a style of flame, trible traditional, real fire ect..
Then you need to take the style and apply it to the vehicle
in patterns that fit the surface and lines of the vehicle.
You need to get into the head of the customer because this
art is going to be an extension of their personality so a
few sketch layouts are in order because once you start there
is no going back. we can computer and hand sketch layouts
for customers to get the right style and layout they desire.

Now comes the prep work, the surface needs to be
prepped for clearcoat since the car flamed panels will be
cleared 100% multiple times. Next you do the layout, now
this can be done in multiple ways, fineline tape, spray mask
and cutout patterns, hand drawn computer digitized design
masks to name a few.

After the layout is applied you now spray the base color
of the flames, this would be the main color and the largest
color covering the design after that you add the fades and
airbrush effects as desired. After the effects are applied
add a light protective coat of clear so you dont smudge the
effects applied.

Now you need to add the bury coat of clear this will
bring the complete surface back to a flat plane for
additional effects such as 3-D shadows and pinstriping.
after you apply the bury coats of clear and it has hardened
at least 24 hours you then blocksand it flat and now you
ready to add the additional effects.

After you apply the effects your ready for the 3rd clear
coat. When you do this always double coat the second set of
effects as thoes will need to be blocked prior rubbing
out to get to a flat surface again. For a super flat
custom job you may even want to blocksand the entire surface
flat and add another clearcoat operation. Your are now ready
for sand and rubot.

As you can see doing "Quality Flames" is a time consuming
meticulious process and every step omitted will diminish the
quality of the final product.